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Both yes and no.

Yes:

It does have to be purchased if you want to buy the installation disks located within a Windows 7 CD/DVD case from Walmart, TARGET, Meijer (only found in the Midwest), BEST BUY, HHGREGG CIRCUIT CITY.

No:

You can go to Softpedia and download the Windows 7 Beta from there.

The Windows 7 Beta will delete all of your XP files or Vista files (depending on whether you have XP or Vista) and install Windows 7.

(NOTE: You need a blank re-writable DVD-RW disk in order to installl the Windows 7 Beta.)

OR

you can download Virtual Clone Drive and install it using that program instead of using a blank rewritable DVD-RWdisk.

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